Saturday, February 17, 2018

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., blamed
the Obama administration for not heeding his committee's warnings of
Russian election meddling after special counsel Robert Mueller announced
an indictment against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities
for interfering in the 2016 presidential contest.

In Mueller's indictment, unveiled Friday, it said the attempt to
interfere with the 2016 election began in May 2014 with the stated goal
of “spreading distrust towards candidates and the political system in
general.”

Enemy searchlights had caught its outline
as the RAF Whitley reached Nieuport on the coast of Nazi-occupied
Belgium, and the German batteries opened up. But unscathed, the pilots
pressed on, heading inland as instructed.

Just
minutes later, passing above the darkened fields of Flanders, the
crucial moment had arrived. The flaps of the aircraft were lowered and,
from a height of between 600 and 1,000ft, a British ‘agent’ parachuted
gently to the ground.

This was July
1941, and an extraordinary new development in the intelligence war with
the Wehrmacht was in full swing. So important was the information
gleaned from this particular mission, it would end up on Churchill’s
desk.

By way of prologue, let me say that all of us like the Lincoln whose
face appears on the penny. He is the Lincoln of myth: kindly, hum­ble, a
man of sorrows who believes in malice toward none and char­ity toward
all, who simply wants to preserve the Union so that we can all live
together as one people.

The Lincoln on the penny, had he lived, would
have spared the South the ravages of Reconstruction and ushered in the
Era of Good Feeling in 1865. The fact that this mythic Lincoln was
killed is surely the ultimate tragedy in a tragic era. Indeed the most
that any Southerner could say in behalf of the slayer of that Lincoln
was what Sheldon Vanauken reported hearing from an old-fashioned
Virginian:

“Young Booth, sir, acting out of the best of motives, made a
tragic blunder.” But the Lincoln on the penny, the mythic Lincoln, did
not exist. Instead a very real man, a political absolutist with enormous
human weaknesses, for a time held the destiny of the nation in his
oversized palm. So why do we dislike this Lincoln so much? There are
many reasons, and here, just for starters, are three good ones:

It is written that “despite the changes which the catastrophe of 1865 made inevitable, the distinctive culture of the region was never destroyed.” Both races had to return to living together in the same land, but social relations deteriorated with the political machinations of the carpetbaggers and the Republican Party’s Union League. For simple political opportunism and lasting hegemony over the defeated South, the latter taught the black man to hate his lifelong white neighbor and vote for the Northern party which impoverished the South.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

Another Casualty of the War

“Since the Civil War, there has been a decline in what the ante-bellum traveler Frederick Law Olmsted called “the close habitation and association between black and white.” Immediately after the war the two races separated in churches, and for the cultural give and take of the plantation was substituted a dual school system which sealed off the children of one race from another.

Gradually it became impossible for a white person to teach in a Negro school without losing caste. When the courts forced the attendance of Negroes in white schools, no genuine interracial fraternity developed. No longer did the two races have what William Faulkner calls “the same parties: the identical music from identical instruments, crude fiddles and guitars, now in the big house with candles and silk dresses and champagne, now in the dirt-floored cabins with smoking pine knots and calico and water sweetened with molasses.”

The whites have been able to implement a growing aversion to intimate contact with the blacks through the use of labor-saving devices and through the spread of progressive notions concerning the dignity of labor. Despite Supreme Court decisions, immutable social custom makes for increased residential segregation, especially in the newer sections of the cities.

One of the most persistent beliefs about the South is that the Negro is in a constant state of revolt against the social pattern of the section. Despite a vast literature to the contrary, the facts of history refute this assumption.

As a slave the black man never attempted general insurrection and did not run away often. “The slaves,” says a historian of the Confederacy, Robert Cotterill, “supported the Confederacy (albeit somewhat involuntarily).” It is now proved that outside compulsions rather than inner ambitions prompted the political insubordinations of Reconstruction. Their artificial character is proved by the fact that they were not accompanied by much social insubordinations and by the fact that they disappeared as soon as the outside compulsions were removed.

Indicative of the willingness of the rank and file blacks to accept the status quo are the words of a conservative demagogue who knew the Negro well. “If the election of the governor of South Carolina were left “entirely to the Negro vote,” declared Cole L. Blease in 1913, “I would receive without trouble 75 to 90 percent.”

From a comment on the previous post NO!
came an idea that has come of age. Why are we still sending our
children to schools? What justification, after all of the carnage and
all of the other problems inherent to pubescent and pre-pubescent
children congregating in these social indoctrination centers can the
collectivists offer?

Curriculums can be purchased and given online. Everyone has some access
to the internet and those curriculums need not be data intensive to
allow even low data usage accounts to access the information and take
the courses. Naturally, there is some degree of risk for fraud, where
parents actually do the work for the children, but at present there is a
huge amount of social advancements taking place anyway. Cheating is
cheating, whether done on the individual or institutional levels. The
risk that poorly educated adults will do the work of poorly educated
children is probably as beneficial as it is problematic.

As the noted Vietnam War correspondent Joe Galloway says in his preface:
“As you read the stories in Terry’s book, think about this: they
were the best you had, America, and you turned your back on them.”

I
was only one of many Vietnam veterans who wrote opinion columns
criticizing the Vietnam War film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, opining
their work seemed more like propaganda than history. In doing so I
occasionally used “Burns” as shorthand for the pair, to which Ms. Novick
emailed me her objection. She is correct, I should consistently include
her name as co-producer because she is equally culpable in the hit
piece they brazenly call a documentary.

So,
Ms. Novick and Mr. Burns, this is for you. My back-handed compliment is
that your wholly inaccurate film is a slick rationalization for aging
Americans who, decades ago, loudly encouraged our enemy while we were
killing each other in combat. For those harboring doubts about actively
opposing us in their youth while we served our country in a war, your
film may have supplied just the soothing salve they need.

You
bent the truth in your film too far, too consistently, too
repetitively, and omitted too much to leave any room for me to believe
those errors, omissions, distortions, half-truths and complete
falsehoods were remotely accidental.

Like
a house of distorted mirrors, you portrayed the murderous and avowed
Stalinist Ho Chi Minh as a nationalist driven by reunification of North
and South Vietnam rather than his real commitment to Communist conquest
of free South Vietnam. Your film repeatedly depicted the war as
unwinnable, the North Vietnamese cause as just, war crimes between the
two sides as morally equivalent, American troops as victims, South
Vietnamese as mere bit players, all that and much more of your content
completely opposite of the truth. You selected for dominant interviews
from the tiny percentage of American combat veterans with a grievance
who joined the protestors when they returned home.

The Daily Caller co-founder called out journalists for backing off of
their claims that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia since the
latest indictment show nothing of the sort, and also questioned why the
FBI was spending so much time going after “Facebook trolls.”

“At least we know what our federal agents were doing recently while
they were too busy to stop school shootings,” Carlson said. “They’ve
been chasing down bad Facebook trolls.”

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.